Meet at the Barter Production Building at the appropriate time for your movement/dance auditions. Directions to the Production Building will be available at Barter Stage II. The movement/dance audition site will be open half an hour before the scheduled audition time on each day for warm-up and changing. Please be prepared to stay through the entire movement/dance audition time. Please wear shoes and clothing appropriate for a dance audition.

Teaching of the first dance combination will begin promptly at 12:15 p.m. and 4:15 p.m. for each session.

The movement/dance auditions will be broken down into two levels: Choreographed movement/dance: Everyone attending the dance auditions will do this combination after which we will ask the more experienced dancers to stay and learn a second combination. Dance combination for dancers, including Actor/Singers who also consider themselves dancers. Only those requested to do the second combination will learn it.

If you are a dancer who plans to attend the movement/dance auditions but do not plan to attend the acting/singing auditions, that is OK, but please inform the audition monitor.

Theatre Statement

Anyone interested in the Resident Company or any musical, is encouraged to attend the movement/dance auditions, even if you do not consider yourself to be a dancer. Seeking year-round, Resident Company Members: Most members of our resident company sing and move, at least at a minimal level, but it is not a requirement; For these auditions, we highly encourage you to sing and attend the movement auditions in addition to acting if you are interested in becoming a member of the resident company. Also seeking Local and Non-Local Jobbers for roles for a single show or a single repertory, and actors for six readings and staged productions during the Appalachian Festival of Plays and Playwrights.

Most actors will participate in two productions during the same repertory.